Wang Hua and Murong Zhengze, who had just arrived with the people, were stunned, Du Fu was authoritarian and opposition, and the person who wanted to assassinate him now would never be an ordinary minister, it should be either Jiang Duo or Yang Chong; As for Tian Xiong and the Luoyang Gang, they didn't participate, but no one dared to pack the ticket, and the political whirlpool was already treacherous and changeable.

Yang Chong met the two of them in the post house, and did not introduce the situation he saw in the inn during his private visit to Weifu, but said lightly: "This should be a trap, seven Shanyue, I took it south to see if it was really Miao Haichao." The Luoyang Gang and Yihong Mansion will be handed over to you, the Luoyang Gang will be disbanded, and the forcibly occupied fields and shops will be returned; Find out the true identities of Ziyan and Yuchai, and find Tu Qixiao. ”

Wang Hua also thinks so, Miao Haichao's name is unknown, if Du Fuwei really has an idea, he should also find Wang Xiongdan, Kan Leng, and Fu Gongyou; If none of the three are willing to make a move, then Du Fuwei should wash and sleep, and at most eat a bowl of noodles under the lamp before going to bed. Murong Zheng asked, "What should Tian Xiong do?" ”

Yang Chong said solemnly: "Although Tian Xiong is not heinous, but he has done no bad things, if there is no bloody case, he will cancel the position of the dismissed official, withdraw all ill-gotten gains, and then sentence him according to the law of the Great Sui; If there is a bloody case, it must be judged according to the law of the Great Sui. ”

Murong Zhengze is also an old oilman in officialdom, and he understands Yang Chong's meaning, Tian Xiong's case about money, as long as the money is returned, the case can be closed, and the final sentence will not be too heavy; But once you kill someone, you have no choice, you have to pay for your life. Su Dingfang sent a team of fifty horsemen to escort Yang Chong's three letters back to Chang'an, one for the princess Jiang Fei, one for the privy deputy envoy Fang Xuanling, and one for Yang Wang.

When Yang Chong met with Zhang Jin, he called Guo Zigao, Zhang Xuansu, Cui Junsu, Liu Diao and others by the way, and asked Zhi Huaidao to say his plan to retire from the field, and the people who stayed in Luoyang did not change their color. Those who can forcibly buy land in the war in the disaster year, which one is not a powerful party or a famous family; The average small landlord has accumulated virtue on his ancestors to keep his own land, and he dares to buy land to show his wealth, in case he attracts robbers and soldiers, that is, he is looking for death.

Only the powerful and powerful clans, rich and people, ordinary robbers still rely on them to survive, and local warlords need their support in order to be like a fish in water, and even a bag of grain can buy an acre of land, and ten catties of rice can be exchanged for a little girl. Yang Chong's proposition is that they spit out part of the fruits of those years, which is a matter that touches the bottom line, Zhang Jin said with some worry: "King Yue, do you really need to get to this step?" ”

Yang Chongpi said with a smile: "Then you can see if you have any good ideas." ”

No, definitely not, otherwise Yang Jian and Yang Guang father and son would not have to let the government check the population of the fields again and again, Pei Yun's "appearance reading method" has reached the point of verifying the correct body, each household registration is checked by the lawsuit, verified with me, gender and age can not be different. In order to implement these measures, Pei Yun also stipulated: "If one person is not true, the lawsuit will be dismissed, and the township will be far away." ”

In this way, I failed to do this thoroughly, and in the end, even the method of rewarding and reporting was used, and those who had a missing account were informed, and the whistleblower only needed to "rectify a small person, so that the corrected family would lose and be enslaved". In the end, the imperial court added a new population of 1,641,500 and increased the poll tax, but the land was still a bad debt.

Yang Chong stayed in Luoyang for three days, and news came from Chang'an Kuaima that the political hall was discussing the matter of returning the land; Du Fuwei sent a letter that he would go all out to investigate the case, and he had informed Wang Xiongdan, who was in the south, to arrest his other son, Zhong Guan. Yang Chong knew that neither of these things would come to fruition quickly, and after watching the potato planting, he set off for Jiangdu; Yang Chong's old trick was repeated, but the two carriages went first, and Zhang Liang led three hundred cavalry to keep in touch at any time.

Most of the Jiangdu Shi people are merchants, and they can't look down on the harvest in the fields, and the government has promoted the Zhancheng rice, which doubles the rent for no reason, and the situation of exploiting the people is a little better than that in Henan; What Yang Chong wanted to see was the school, and the group quietly came to the door of the Jiangdu government-run primary school. The school's buildings are all brick houses, and the roads around the playground are planted with trees and shaded green. The management is tight and organized, and the food of the students is asked by the janitor, which is also satisfactory.

Just when Yang Chong was about to leave, he saw a monk among the students who walked to the playground between classes, Yang Chong politely asked the janitor for advice, and the janitor sighed and said: "That is Shangguan Yi, the son of Shangguan Hong, the deputy supervisor of Langzhong in the north and Jiangdu Palace, Yu Wenhua and when he was in chaos in Jiangdu, Shangguan Hong was killed, Shangguan Yi was spared because of hiding, in order to avoid trouble, he shaved himself as a monk, and heard what arithmetic was taught in primary school, and came to class." ”

Yang Chong sighed and left, knowing in his heart that this Shangguan Yi was Di Renjie's teacher, Shangguan Wan'er's grandfather, and the Shangguan Yi who was killed by Wu Zetian. However, Yang Chong's subordinates are full of talents, unless Shangguan Yi is really inclined to himself, Yang Chong is not in a hurry to recruit him, if it is Di Renjie's strange talent, Yang Chong may immediately start robbing people.

Fu Gongyou and Cui Deben took the civil and military officials to greet Duhuhong, Su Dingfang and others in the Shili Changting Pavilion was stunned, and when they learned that Yang Chong had entered Jiangdu City in plain clothes, they hurriedly rushed back to the left-behind division and found that Yang Chong was already sitting there drinking tea. Yang Chong said with a smile: "The management is good, it is very in line with the realm of inaction, there are beautiful women on the street, rich businessmen are everywhere, that is, the population is a little smaller, if there are one million people, I am afraid it will exceed Chang'an." ”

Fu Gongyou shook his head and said, "You refuse to open a bank in Jiangdu." ”

Yang Chong beckoned everyone to sit down and said, "But have you thought about it, once the city ships of Huating and Hangzhou are formed and can accommodate a large number of sea ships, will those merchant ships from the south still leave Yangzhou?" Anyway, it is all sea ships to river boats, why should sea ships go so far by sea, straight into the Yangtze River, you can unload the ship in Huating or Wu County, and then go along the canal to Bashu Lake, Jingxiang and other places, only to Luoyang can half of the goods come to Jiangdu. ”

So that's the case, Fu Gongyou, Cui Deben and the others thought about it for a while, and they figured out the mystery, and also understood why Yang Chong chose Huating as his fief in the first place, it was not a whim, but a plan that had been calculated a long time ago. In this way, the advantages of Wu County came out all of a sudden, and it was in the middle of the four counties of Danyang, Huiji, Huating and Hangzhou, which was a commercial center where Jiangdu went to Wu County, and it didn't take long to get out of it.

Yu Yu and most of the other officials saw Yang Chong withdraw before asking, "Is Yang Tong sick?" ”

(End of chapter)